GC24W7Q Tobacco Warehouse - Stanley Dock - Drive by (Traditional Cache) in North West England, United Kingdom created by FantasyRaider

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Hidden : 3/10/2010

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Tobacco Warehouse - Stanley Dock - Drive by

Stanley Dock was a Tobacco Warehouse in Liverpool
It is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse.
Standing 125 foot high, the building was at the time of its construction in 1901,
claimed to be the world's largest building in terms of area.
The 14 storey building spans across 36 acres and its construction used 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel.
The overall design is by A.G. Lyster, the Dock Engineer,
but Arthur Berrington almost certainly played a part.
The warehouse was a late addition to the Stanley Dock complex
and was built on land reclaimed from the dock.
Stanley Dock is accessible from the dock system or by barge from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which enters under Great Howard Street bridge.
With the decline of trade going through Liverpool, the warehouse fell into disuse in the 1980s and gradually into disrepair.
More recently the building has featured in the Stop the Rot conservation campaign
by the Liverpool Echo newspaper.
Part of the ground floor of the warehouse is used for the Sunday Heritage Market.
In March 2007, plans were unveiled for the Tobacco Warehouse to be redeveloped into 650 duplex apartments as part of a larger development of the whole Stanley Dock site.
The plans involve digging out the centre of the warehouse,
to create a garden-filled courtyard.

This will be a series of L'Pool Dock drive-by caches.
You can park within inches of all of these drive by's!

You are looking for a magnetic Micro tube 2"x1".

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